Le Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 01:52:16PM +0200, Grammostola Rosea a écrit :
In my Debianized package, copyright file says:
License:
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
Well, that may be the license that the author of dh-make suggests for your
packaging work. However, if one looks in the README of WhySynth one finds:
“ WhySynth is written by Sean Bolton, and copyright (c) 2008 under the
GNU General Public License, version 2 or later. See the enclosed
file COPYING for details. While this software is 'free' within the
requirements of this license, I (Sean) would appreciate any or all
of the following should you find WhySynth useful:
- an email stating where you're from and how you're using
WhySynth, sent to <musound /at/ jps /dot/ net>, or better
yet, a postcard sent to:
Sean Bolton
1744 NE Clackamas St
Portland Oregon 97232 USA
- copies of or links to music you've created with WhySynth.
- any patches you create for WhySynth. Yes! Please!
- suggestions for improving WhySynth.
The patches distributed with WhySynth, including the default
'factory' patches and those found in the 'extra' directory, have
been placed in the public domain by their respective authors. See
the enclosed file extra/COPYING-patches for details. ”
This is the license for WhySynth. In addition, the AUTHORS file nicely lists
all the works WhySynth is deriving from.
Those two files contain most of what you have to put in debian/copyright.
Note that the GPLv3 is not necessarly a good choice for your packaging work, as
it is unclear from the AUTHORS if WhySynth was derived from software under the
GPL version “2 or later”, or version 2 only, which is incompatible with the
version 3.
Have a nice day,